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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?
(a) To keep the children quiet the next morning.
(b) To send her daughters away.
(c) To send Bheki away.
(d) To leave the house for a week.

2. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?
(a) It is vacation time.
(b) The school is closed.
(c) It is after 5 p.m.
(d) The bus broke down.

3. Where does the housekeeper's husband work?
(a) At a chemical plant.
(b) At an electricity plant.
(c) At a chicken farming plant.
(d) At a car plant.

4. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?
(a) Bring Bheki to a white doctor.
(b) Bring Bheki to the police.
(c) Call the mayor's office.
(d) File a complaint about the police.

5. Where is the narrator's husband in Part One?
(a) Dead.
(b) On a boat.
(c) In jail.
(d) With another woman.

6. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?
(a) He sleeps.
(b) He stops drinking.
(c) He leaves.
(d) He goes to the hospital.

7. What does the narrator think of doing with her cats after her death?
(a) Give them to her sister.
(b) Give them to the homeless man.
(c) Have them put down.
(d) Give them to a hospital.

8. How does the narrator describe Mr Vercueil's usual temperament?
(a) Excited.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sullen.
(d) On edge.

9. What do the narrator and her housekeeper do after talking with Mr. Vercueil in the kitchen?
(a) Push the woman in the pool.
(b) Pack his suitcase and throw it out the window.
(c) Take the woman and push her out the house.
(d) Take the woman and bring her to the police.

10. Who does the narrator find at the start of Part One?
(a) Her sister.
(b) A homeless woman.
(c) A homeless man.
(d) Her daughter.

11. What injury does Bheki's friend have following the crash?
(a) Broken arm.
(b) Cuts on his legs.
(c) Bruises on his arms and legs.
(d) Head wound.

12. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?
(a) To prepare cocoa for everyone.
(b) To go home.
(c) To go rent a good movie.
(d) To send Bheki's friend home.

13. What does the narrator say to the housekeeper that one day will hurt everybody?
(a) Hate.
(b) Love.
(c) Discomfort.
(d) Altruism.

14. Where does the narrator find Mr. Vercueil at the start of Part Two?
(a) Passed out on the kitchen floor.
(b) In his car.
(c) In the rain.
(d) Drunk on the couch.

15. Who calls the narrator as she plays music?
(a) A bystander.
(b) An old friend.
(c) A police officer.
(d) A neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator think the person that lives near her house will return?

2. Where does the narrator find Mr. Vercueil when she wakes?

3. What does the narrator say about charity not being appreciated?

4. What is the ethnicity of the narrator?

5. Where is the man that the narrator brings on her trip to town from?

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